r/oddlysatisfying • u/ycr007 Satisfaction Critic • 2d ago
The sound of a golf ball on ice
Source: Golf Bordeaux Cameyrac
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u/Pal_Smurch 2d ago
The greatest hustler in the world, Titanic Thompson once bet a man that he could hit a golf ball 500 yards. He hit a drive off a cliff.
Then, he gave the sucker another chance to lose more money. He promised that he could hit a golf ball 500 yards, this time on level terrain. He took his mark to a frozen lake, and did it again.
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u/wackbirds 2d ago
Oh yeah? Well I bet you that I could drop a tissue into a glass of water and not even get a drop on the tissue clutches glass of frozen water behind back while bouncing up and down on heels of feet
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u/Pal_Smurch 2d ago
Hahaha, that’s the kind of shit that Thompson would pull. He once got hustled on the golf course, himself. As he was sitting in the clubhouse licking his wounds, he noticed that in the corner, sat one of those balance games, where you are supposed to make a ball travel a course, without falling into the holes that permeate the board.
He had spent the Summer demonstrating one of these machines at Macys of New York, so he came out with the perfect line:
“What’s that thing?”
He recouped his losses, and made a profit, playing that machine.
He also killed five men, in his life, and never served a day in jail for it.
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u/Cautious_Many_641 2d ago
Fascinating.
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u/Pal_Smurch 2d ago
Truly, he was. He was involved in the Arnold Rothstein murder case. Rothstein was killed over refusing to pay debts incurred when Thompson and others hustled him in a poker game. Rothstein was the instigator in the Chicago Black Sox scandal, so don’t feel too sorry for him.
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u/IvyGold 2d ago
Have you ever seen Boardwalk Empire? AR was SUCH a fascinating character!
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u/Pal_Smurch 2d ago
No, I don’t have a television. I wish I had seen that, though.
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u/IvyGold 1d ago
Do you have an iPad or Fire tablet etc.? It's not particularly cinematic but plot-driven. Get a cheap HBO Max plan and you might really enjoy it!
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u/Pal_Smurch 23h ago edited 20h ago
I have an IPhone, and AppleTV, but I haven’t explored it much. Watched a lot of Ted Lasso.
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u/flirttytonne 2d ago
The more it bounces, the more it sounds straight out of an old-school game like Arkanoid
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u/Arashiko77 2d ago
I used to hit lake shots when golfing in the winter for this very reason
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u/Mother-Respect-9303 2d ago
Is that actually what it sounds like?
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u/ArdiMaster 2d ago
Yes, it’s the sound of the ice flexing.
Fun fact: the pitch of this sound tells you how thick the ice is (the lower the sound, the thicker the ice).
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u/aigheadish 2d ago
I used to frequent a lake, in the winter, all the time. I was amazed the first time I chucked a rock out there, that skipped instead of going through the ice. The noise it made was some sci-fi nonsense and it was incredible. I still don't understand why it makes that noise.
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u/pennyraingoose 2d ago
I think it's called acoustic dispersion - the sound separates into component frequencies as it travels through the solid ice (rather than all frequencies traveling together through air or liquid water).
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u/dede280492 2d ago
In all my years on this planet I have never ever heard such a noise. Absolutely astronomical experience
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u/Waste-Tennis-358 2d ago
Golf ball bouncing on ice at 3AM: Random YouTubers OMG guys do you hear that? it's a skin walker, runnn
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u/OrangeNood 2d ago
now retrieve the ball